Talk:Ex parte Milligan

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[edit] Ex parte Quirin

Seems to me a reference to this case (with its own page herein) is merited. Ditto a ref to Gitmo & Iraq. Trekphiler 13:00, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Why is this case not of the form "x vs. y?" Iflipti 09:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

See Ex parte for an explanation. To sum up, there's no x v. y because one side is petitioning regarding habeas corpus. --Rajah 10:19, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] no dissenting opinion

The infobox listed Chase's opinion as a "dissent", which it really isn't. It concurs in the judgment, but disagrees with some of the court's reasoning. In modern terminology, that would be an opinion "concurring in the judgment"; a "dissenting" opinion actually disagrees with some substantive part of the majority's holding. Chase's opinion says as much pretty explicitly in the first paragraph:

Four members of the court, concurring with their brethren in the order heretofore made in this cause, but unable to concur in some important particulares with the opinion which has just been read, think it their duty to make a separate statement of their views of the whole case.

I've changed the wording accordingly, but thought I'd leave a note here. --Delirium 09:16, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Upon digging through the page history it seems it actually used to say "concurrence", but was changed pretty recently to "dissent" in the midst of a move from a raw table to the template syntax. I assume it was just a typo then, so no harm done. --Delirium 09:24, 4 July 2006 (UTC)